The week in Shepparton

Sunday - Went for a road trip to Echucha, which is roughly 1 and 1/2 hours away from Shepparton. It is like a small town version of Ballarat with quite antique style architecture with quaint gift shops and cute home-made candy and confectionery shops. Hard to find such a place where it is open during sundays. Echucha also boasts of its red-gum wood and steamer services down the Murray River. You can choose to take a short ride or join in for their lunch/dinner menus atop the cruise. You can even choose to organize events such as weddings on the simple steamer cruise, so not my type anyway.

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We opted instead for a nice picnic along the shore of Murray river. A-ha... maybe not a very good idea, we spend almost half the time trying to chase off flies and the birds who are not shy at all~! XP

There is another quite important place to drop by in Echucha, which is a fish and oyster bar which boasts the best fish and chips in Victoria states. Unlike other shops who claimed that they are the best in certain fields, this shop actually displayed the newspaper article dubbing them Victoria's best fish and chips shop. True to its name, it is very nice, winning over Fremantle's fish and chips. And the amazing part is? the shop is managed and handled by only one person~!

The week in Shepparton

Friday night - went to Tatura for a pre-Xmas party organized by Bay's company. In order to socialize, had to drink alcohol. Unwilling to drink beer, chose almost the sweetest dessert wine they had. After downing 4 to 5 glass, felt dizzy already...

Saturday - went to Melbourne for a day trip. Why is it everytime I go down to Melbourne, they had some sort of peace protest going on in the CBD area? first time was some student rights thing, second time was the 'let the refugees into australia' protest and this time is called 'the greens' protest. It is actually something that hits close to heart, makes me wanna be involved in something that can assists in conserving the environment. Actually, to be honest, it seems like a bit of a parade if not for the speeches they gave about carbon capture and rising sea tides beforehand. lol... just take a look at the band of musicians atop the weird cycling machine.
A great place to go especially during xmas shopping is the chocolate and confectionary shops, they have the most cutest and adorable merchandise for the season~! First stop was Darrel Lea, that one was quite mild. The second stop was to Lindt chocolate shop, omg... I swooned at the ranges of products they have up for xmas celebration. If you think the supermarket version of Lindt chocolate is all you can concede for, you haven't seen this bunch~! If they just allow me to take pics of the range of chocolates, cakes and delic, I sure you would salivate at the view. The cakes look really nice. For one whole yummy cake cost about AUD40, which I think isn't so bad if you consider it is LINDT!! :P But the weird thing is the queue doesn't seem to reside at the cake department but at the delic section~! So we decided to follow the crowd and bought the delic... elegance, champagne white and passion for a price of AUD2 each. It is actually very very sweet but the texture is very nice. I am not a fan of sweet stuff but the elegance delic is really nice.

Finally...

Yes~! The final result that I will ever receive finally has been released.

4 years of chemical engineering has finally been drawn to an end, although the official ceremony to celebrate the actual day has not been performed but can't repressed that feeling of completion... yeah~!

Although the results are not what I have been working towards, One of the project that I have been working very hard... Initially the university stated that they will assess the project in two parts which are the group part and the individual part, which means that for the same group, each member will have different marks. However, now we found out that everyone in the member got the same marks. I am not very opposed to my other group members but there was one very very selfish group member who simply do. When I think about it, it could be due to her part that our overall marks was pulled down. I really wanna cry when I think about it.

But never mind, luckily was able to maintain my average still... yes~! Can obtain first class honours~! yeah~!